Chapter 61 - A Threatening Mark (1/2)

Chapter 61 - A Threatening Mark

“Xue, I’m home,” Xia Lei said automatically when he opened the door

nobody responded; the flat was quiet

Xia Lei then re-Du to study and was not home He shook his head and smiled wryly This was not the first ti of it when Xia Xue was still around and he took it for granted It was after she left, however, that he found out how much he missed her She was his one and only sister after all, and his only kin in the world

He closed the door, walked into the living roo in the flat looked fine but he knew soinal place The changes were ses did not escape his left eye All environments his eye had seen could be recalled, even the contents of the rubbish bin, s!

The person who’d entered his hos back in their original places but he had not put everything back perfectly The television cabinet, for example; Xia Lei reap and a screwdriver could be seen through that gap It now had a two-centiap

“Could it have been that tranny?” Xia Lei suddenly thought of the thief with a face women would envy “If it was hiainsta thief into my home? The patent has already been approved It’s useless even if she steals the design plans and the design isn’t even here with n plans, what did she want froht about it but could not think of what Gu Ke-Wen would have sent the tranny to his home to find

After a period of silence, Xia Lei walked to the television cabinet and picked up his fralass bottle was still there and the pill was still in the bottle, lying quietly at its bottom It was very ordinary but it made one feel like there was a story behind it

Xia Lei put the framed picture back in its place and moved to theHis eye twitched and a faint footprint appeared in his vision This footprint was sed to a woman He then scanned the room and saw that the faint footprints were all over the floor Professional police crime scene technicians would need to sprinkle fluorescent powder or some sort of powder of that kind to see the prints but Xia Lei could see them in panorama

This was the zoos which regular people would need the aid of lasses for

The footprints went fro room to the doors of the bedrooms They led to both his and Xia Xue’s rooms

Xia Lei followed the footprints to his own room The footprints were everywhere The bedside drawers and drawers under his wardrobe had traces of having been moved

Xia Lei opened one of his bedside drawers and found that the underwear inside was in ahis rooh his things, nothing had been stolen The 1,000 yuan eency cash in his wardrobe had not been taken

A thief who’s not afterthat, Xia Lei came to Xia Xue’s rooone through all the drawers but not stolen anything

After a check, Xia Lei’s gaze suddenly went to the writing desk under theIt was Xia Xue’s writing desk and there was a pile of revision papers for university entrance exaraduation What he saever, was not the sunny-s Xia Xue in the picture but the ‘X’ drawn in red lass of the photo frame

The ‘X’ mark was small and not over one square centimetre but Xia Lei could still see it A one square centi as a house to him with the ability of his left eye The ‘X’ had been drawn on the photo fraht above Xia Xue’s forehead What it represented was clear - this was a threat!

Xia Lei’s face was ashen as he balled his hands into fists, then growled through clenched teeth, “Gu Ke-Wen, I don’t care who you are If you dare harm my sister, even one hair of hers, I will kill you!”

After his father disappeared, Xia Lei had played not just the role of brother but of father If anyone wanted to hurt Xia Xue, he would go to the person and fight - and the second daughter of the Gu clan was no exception!

The thief had left from Xia Xue’sThe footprint on the sill pointed outwards

Xia Lei was struck by a thought and he followed it out of his flat, going downstairs and chasing after the path of footprints the thief had left behind

The footprints became fainter and fainter and some prints were obscured by other prints The footprints he was following disappeared in an alley behind the neighbourhood and there was an additionalin the direction of the opposite end of the alley

That thief had ridden away on athe motorcycle tyre tracks and continued his chase